pansyish

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English

Etymology

From pansy +‎ -ish.

Adjective

pansyish (comparative more pansyish, superlative most pansyish)

  1. (derogatory, colloquial) Of a man: effeminate, weak, wussy.
    • 2010, Peter Holbrook, Shakespeare's Individualism, page 232:
      Jocelyn Brooke's brilliant, semi-autobiographical The Military Orchid deals with the author's sensitive, precocious, pansyish childhood, defined largely by the pursuit of exotic orchids and addiction to fireworks.
    • 2019, Malcolm McLean, Freak Like Me:
      Conor was also pansyish and into music and theatre. At last I would have a genuine friend there; someone I had something in common with. My wallflower days were over!